Hi! Welcome to Barnegat Patch, your new, all-hours online source for everything Barnegat. As your editor, I'll be following the things that matter in this shore town, from politics to Pirates' Day. I'm excited about Patch because it offers what many other news sources these days can't or won't: lots of attention to community-specific issues, and more chances for you, the reader, to tell me, the editor, what you want to know. Barnegat is my only focus, and I'm always ready to hear from you. The news you care about is the news I care about, too. A Virginia native, I moved to New Jersey in 2001 …
It's nice to see the Cox house at Route 9 and West Bay Avenue in Barnegat open to visitors during the holidays. I've been tempted to stop in, but resisted the temptation because I still treasure the memories I have of the home, and its former owners, Luther and Mary Ann Cox. It was our first New Years together as husband and wife, and we spent it sharing the warm hospitality of my new employers as 1964 turned into 1965. Barnegat was a different place then, far different from today, rural, still focused on harvesting the fruits of Barnegat Bay, with abundant poverty and few families as well …
